Re: [NTB] Really basic question....

... And for the wrap replace with Trailing Text^pLeading Text to take care of all but the start of the first line and the end of the last line. Alan G

Message 1 of 15
, May 31, 2008

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> Well, this is pretty easy. No, you don't need a clip. You don't need
> even to use fancy string functions, like regular expressions. Just a
> plain old search-and-replace will do.
>
> Search for "^P" (do not include the quotes)
> Replace with "^Phttp://www.domain.com/"
>
> The thing is, the "^P" is understood by Notetab as meaning "line break".
> So, you treat a line break as any other character in the text.

And for the wrap replace with "Trailing Text^pLeading Text" to take care
of all but the start of the first line and the end of the last line.

Alan G

loro

... Right. I missed that it was the same text all the time there too. No RegEx needed then. Lotta

Message 2 of 15
, May 31, 2008

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Alan G wrote:

>And for the wrap replace with "Trailing Text^pLeading Text" to take care
>of all but the start of the first line and the end of the last line.

Right. I missed that it was the same text all the time there too. No
RegEx needed then.

Lotta

Don - HtmlFixIt.com

... Hi Alan, Lotta and Terry And I would just add a return before the first line and after the last line and then go back and delete the first and last lines

Message 3 of 15
, Jun 1, 2008

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loro wrote:

> Alan G wrote:
>> And for the wrap replace with "Trailing Text^pLeading Text" to take care
>> of all but the start of the first line and the end of the last line.
>
> Right. I missed that it was the same text all the time there too. No
> RegEx needed then.
>
> Lotta

Hi Alan, Lotta and Terry

And I would just add a return before the first line and after the last
line and then go back and delete the first and last lines :-) rather
than manually add my proceeding and trailing text if I were going to use
your method.

However you can do a lot more with either regex (regular expression
replaces or with clips). Clips are discussed on another list so I won't
touch them here, but I encourage you to join it. It may seem complex at
first, but it isn't really.

I believe if you do this:
1. open find and replace dialog (control + r)
2. check the regex box in the bottom center of it
3. position the cursor at the top of the document (a shortcut way to do
this is to double click anywhere "blank" on the find dialog as that
moves the cursor to the start of the file) and be sure search direction
is down in the drop down of course
4. put this in the top box: ^(.+)
5. put this in the bottom box: before$1after

You will get the outcome you desire for all lines in the file. It will
even skip blank lines.

Welcome to notetab, the most used tool in my software bag.

Don

terencefrancisedwards

Great help folks! Many thanks - it s got me started, which is exactly what I wanted. I just wonder how many other simple jobs I could have done in a fraction

Message 4 of 15
, Jun 5, 2008

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Great help folks! Many thanks - it's got me started, which is exactly
what I wanted.

I just wonder how many other simple jobs I could have done in a
fraction of the time - if I'd found the program earlier & learned some
of the basics??!!

Thanks again to all

Terry

Gerard Huijing

... I had never heard of that feature, so I had to try it immediately ;-). When I do this (in Pro), the double clicking does not bring me to the beginning of

Message 5 of 15
, Jun 5, 2008

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Don - HtmlFixIt.com wrote:

> 3. ... (a shortcut way to do
> this is to double click anywhere "blank" on the find dialog as that
> moves the cursor to the start of the file) ...

I had never heard of that feature, so I had to try it immediately ;-).

When I do this (in Pro), the double clicking does not bring me to the
beginning of the document but Find/Replace cycles through a number of
previous search terms that NTB has remembered.
It doesn't matter where I click in the Find dialog box. And it doesn't
matter either if I have checked the RegEx box or not.
Unchecking Find Word at Cursor under Options - Tools did not help either.

> the double clicking does not bring me to the beginning of the
> document but Find/Replace cycles through a number of previous search
> terms that NTB has remembered.

I think you are double clicking inside the Find field. Blank means
blank - not anywhere close to any check box, button, drop-down list or
text field.

Greg

Don - HtmlFixIt.com

... Hi Gerard, It s an awesome feature. Are you sure you are in the right part of the dialog box? I suspect you misunderstand (or I under-explain) where to

Message 7 of 15
, Jun 5, 2008

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Gerard Huijing wrote:

> Don - HtmlFixIt.com wrote:
>
>> 3. ... (a shortcut way to do
>> this is to double click anywhere "blank" on the find dialog as that
>> moves the cursor to the start of the file) ...
>
> I had never heard of that feature, so I had to try it immediately ;-).
>
> When I do this (in Pro), the double clicking does not bring me to the
> beginning of the document but Find/Replace cycles through a number of
> previous search terms that NTB has remembered.
> It doesn't matter where I click in the Find dialog box. And it doesn't
> matter either if I have checked the RegEx box or not.
> Unchecking Find Word at Cursor under Options - Tools did not help either.
>
> Do you have any idea why "my" NTB behaves so differently?
>
> Gerard

Hi Gerard,

It's an awesome feature. Are you sure you are in the right part of the
dialog box? I suspect you misunderstand (or I under-explain) where to
click.

It is not in the "white" part. It is in the gray part. Go to the left
of the find next button so that you aren't on find next and you aren't
on the drop down arrow for the search box that is white. So you are
halfway between the drop down arrow and the button on plain old gray
background. Left double click there and you go to the top of the
document.

I suspect you are clicking in the white box which will in fact bring up
former search terms. The arrow will also allow you to scroll through them.

I am on pro 5.x myself. So it should work for you.

sisterscape

Very clever trick. In even works on NoteTab with Wine. Now the challenge is to remember it next time I have to update something . . . Sister

Message 8 of 15
, Jun 5, 2008

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Very clever trick. In even works on NoteTab with Wine. Now the
challenge is to remember it next time I have to update something . . .

>
> It is not in the "white" part. It is in the gray part. Go to the
> left
> of the find next button so that you aren't on find next and you
> aren't
> on the drop down arrow for the search box that is white. So you are
> halfway between the drop down arrow and the button on plain old gray
> background. Left double click there and you go to the top of the
> document.
>

Don - HtmlFixIt.com

It makes my top twenty tricks in notetab. Now I wish that you could toggle regex on and off. You have to uncheck or check regex, close the find dialog and

Message 9 of 15
, Jun 6, 2008

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It makes my top twenty tricks in notetab. Now I wish that you could
toggle regex on and off. You have to uncheck or check regex, close the
find dialog and reopen it to get the content of the find box to be in
regex or not regex format.

Eric, any chance of this?

sisterscape wrote:

> Very clever trick. In even works on NoteTab with Wine. Now the
> challenge is to remember it next time I have to update something . . .
>
> Sister
>
>
> --- "Don - HtmlFixIt.com" <don@...> wrote:
>> It is not in the "white" part. It is in the gray part. Go to the
>> left
>> of the find next button so that you aren't on find next and you
>> aren't
>> on the drop down arrow for the search box that is white. So you are
>> halfway between the drop down arrow and the button on plain old gray
>> background. Left double click there and you go to the top of the
>> document.

> It is not in the "white" part. It is in the gray part. Go to the left
> of the find next button so that you aren't on find next and you aren't
> on the drop down arrow for the search box that is white. So you are
> halfway between the drop down arrow and the button on plain old gray
> background. Left double click there and you go to the top of the
> document.
>
> I suspect you are clicking in the white box which will in fact bring up
> former search terms. The arrow will also allow you to scroll through them.
>
> I am on pro 5.x myself. So it should work for you.
>

Thank you for the explanation. I had indeed misunderstood "blank"
completely.

> It makes my top twenty tricks in notetab. Now I wish that you could
> toggle regex on and off. You have to uncheck or check regex, close the
> find dialog and reopen it to get the content of the find box to be in
> regex or not regex format.

Don: Is this your situation? You've selected some text and keyed
Ctrl+R. Because [x]-Regular Exp. was ticked it gets converted to regex
syntax (eg. all dots are prefixed with back-slash). Now you want to get
the same text in the Find what: field but w/o the auto-translate effect?

Untick [x] Regular Exp, move mouse out of Replace dialog so focus is
shifted to main-edit window and issue Ctrl+R again. Same (still selected
text) replace the current text with whatever is selected at the point
you issue the Ctrl+R.

Note: this works best with the TweakUI-Mouse-X-Mouse [x]-Activation
follows mouse (X-Mouse) on (I use an activation delay (ms)=1500).
Caution: don't use Autoraise except perhaps for experimentation. I've
never found a workable way to use that option (and I tried) - YMMV.

Without the X-Mouse option you will have to click in main edit window
and re-select desired text but still no need to actually close the
Replace dialog (AFAICT).

Also: if you Cntrl+C (copy) before Ctrl+R (replace) if it is already in
regexp mode, you have the "native" text available in the clipboard to
paste in the replace window if you realize that the translation it's
done was not what you wanted.

Regards ... Alec -- buralex-gmail
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buralex@gmail.com

terencefrancisedwards said on Jun 05, 2008 ... And if I d invested in Microsoft when I first head of them in the early 80 s I d be

> Great help folks! Many thanks - it's got me started, which is exactly
> what I wanted.
>
> I just wonder how many other simple jobs I could have done in a
> fraction of the time - if I'd found the program earlier & learned some
> of the basics??!!

And if I'd invested in Microsoft when I first head of them in the early
'80's I'd be living in on my own island in the Caribbean 8-)

Regards ... Alec -- buralex-gmail
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